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Somerset vs Essex, Final at Birmingham, Vitality Blast, Jul 15 2023 - Full Scorecard

RESULT
Final, Birmingham, July 15, 2023, Vitality Blast
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(18.3/20 ov, T:146) 131

Somerset won by 14 runs

Player Of The Match
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matt-henry
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Somerset Innings
Essex Innings
Info
Somerset  (20 ovs maximum)
BATTING RBM4s6sSR
c Das b Snater20162511125.00
b Snater99920100.00
b Critchley19192221100.00
c Beard b Walter814170057.14
c †Rossington b Walter53354370151.42
c & b Snater1191910122.22
c Das b Walter2460050.00
run out (Beard)43500133.33
not out 661300100.00
c Snater b Sams53510166.66
run out (Walter)22500100.00
Extras(b 4, lb 1, w 1)6
TOTAL20 Ov (RR: 7.25)145
Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Will Smeed, 2.2 ov), 2-46 (Tom Banton, 6.2 ov), 3-54 (Tom Kohler-Cadmore, 7.6 ov), 4-68 (Tom Abell, 10.6 ov), 5-113 (Lewis Gregory, 15.4 ov), 6-121 (Ben Green, 16.4 ov), 7-127 (Craig Overton, 17.3 ov), 8-133 (Sean Dickson, 18.3 ov), 9-140 (Matt Henry, 19.2 ov), 10-145 (Ish Sodhi, 19.6 ov)
BOWLINGOMRWECON0s4s6sWDNB
402616.5062000
19.2 to MJ Henry, That's all she wrote... Sams takes a bit off this ball and Henry skies down the ground. Snater, coolest on ground, scampers in and makes a tricky catch look routine. 140/9
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411333.25141000
2.2 to WCF Smeed, hacked onto his leg stump! Smeed's footwork is cramped by the keeper's close attentions, he throws the bat with his back leg anchored, and under-edges into his woodwork to give Essex their first incision. 17/1
6.2 to T Banton, reverses the hands and slaps a simple catch to backward point! Banton tried to improvise, but he couldn't line up his shot, very high on the bat, might even had been off the glove, and Snater has two for none from eight balls!. 46/2
15.4 to L Gregory, Snater gets another! Bit of extra lift on the shorter ball means Gregory miscues a pull to the leg side. The ball doesn't go far, allowing Snater to complete the dismissal himself. 113/5
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302317.6663000
7.6 to T Kohler-Cadmore, googly! Rattles the stumps! Kohler-Cadmore is caught on the crease, flat-footed as the ball shapes in, under-edged down into the crease and onto the middle stump. Essex are taking control now!. 54/3
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10.6 to TB Abell, Gone! That had been coming... Abell was getting no joy from the crease and decides to charge and hit over the top. Poor execution and Beard just has to backtrack a few paces from mid on to take the catch. 68/4
16.4 to BGF Green, Green goes! Really smart from Walter, who runs his fingers over the ball from around the wicket. Skies high and Das puts in the dive to take the catch after it just gets away from him in the wind. 121/6
18.3 to SR Dickson, AIR ROSSINGTON! Pace off the ball and Dickson tries to impart power of his own to the shot. Alas, he can only glove above the wicketkeeper, who leaps and clutches it in his right mitt. 133/8
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Essex  (T: 146 runs from 20 ovs)
BATTING RBM4s6sSR
c Aldridge b Henry199940211.11
lbw b Henry1681821200.00
b Henry1470025.00
c Henry b Overton87710114.28
b Sodhi26243030108.33
lbw b Gregory310140030.00
c Kohler-Cadmore b Henry45264513173.07
c †Banton b Gregory39140033.33
b Sodhi034000.00
b Sodhi7980077.77
not out 1260050.00
Extras(lb 1, w 1)2
TOTAL18.3 Ov (RR: 7.08)131
Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Adam Rossington, 1.6 ov), 2-35 (Michael Pepper, 3.1 ov), 3-38 (Dan Lawrence, 3.6 ov), 4-44 (Robin Das, 4.4 ov), 5-55 (Matt Critchley, 7.6 ov), 6-80 (Paul Walter, 11.3 ov), 7-106 (Simon Harmer, 14.4 ov), 8-107 (Shane Snater, 15.3 ov), 9-117 (Aaron Beard, 17.2 ov), 10-131 (Daniel Sams, 18.3 ov)
BOWLINGOMRWECON0s4s6sWDNB
403017.50124100
4.4 to RJ Das, Oh mate... Poor choice of shot, as Das tries to clear Henry at mid on but the timing is all off. Essex are doing as Surrey did earlier and gifting Somerset wickets. 44/4
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1.6 to AM Rossington, WOW! Rossington times his best shot of the innings and Aldridge, cover point, takes a superb catch. How that hasn't punctured his rib cage, never mind stayed in his hands, is anyone's guess.... 27/1
3.1 to MS Pepper, Now then! Henry pitches one on middle and leg, which then comes back and clips the top of off. Pepper absolutely clueless. Where has that come from?!. 35/2
3.6 to DW Lawrence, Plumb! Nip-back and right in front of middle as Lawrence moves across to the off side as per. Too quick, particularly off the pitch as Lawrence was totally in shock when he was pinned. So, so in front that he decides not to review. 38/3
18.3 to DR Sams, wide line... and a wonder-catch to win it! Tom Kohler-Cadmore, at backward point, flings out his left hand as Sams slashes towards deep third! It's the perfect shot for the moment, it seems a certain four, but it's the perfect leap for the title! Somerset win the Vitality Blast for the first time since 2005!. 131/10
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7.6 to MJJ Critchley, LBW again! Critchley, like Lawrence, moves across and Gregory's delivery nipping in finds his front pad adjacent to middle and off. 55/5
14.4 to SR Harmer, snicked off, and Banton gathers with a leap! Harmer tried to run the boundary down through the vacant third, but his contact was too thin! A faint but palpable edge, into the keeper's mitts as he dives to his right, and that's a vast incision!. 106/7
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201909.5010110
402235.50100100
11.3 to PI Walter, lines up the mow to leg, and gets his stumps splattered! Walter has given it away! It looked a touch shorter, leg-stump line, but it just skidded on through a touch quicker than anticipated, and now Essex really are looking down the barrel!. 80/6
15.3 to S Snater, bowled him! Flat-footed from Snater as Sodhi spears in the faster flatter stump-threatener. Straight though his ambitious swish. Bullseye!. 107/8
17.2 to AP Beard, tossed-up legbreak, back go the stumps! Lovely teasing bowling, up above the eyeline of the left-hander, who has a wipe through the width outside off, but the ball dips and bites and turns back into his off stump. This is nearly checkmate. 117/9
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MATCH DETAILS
Edgbaston, Birmingham
TossEssex, elected to field first
Series
Season2023
Player Of The Match
Series resultSomerset won the 2023 Vitality Blast
Match days15 July 2023 - day (20-over match)
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Language
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Vitality Blast

North Group
TEAMMWLPTNRR
BEARS14113220.819
LANCS1485170.427
WORCS1485170.349
NOTTS148616-0.222
DERBS1467130.397
NHNTS1468120.274
DURH1447110.077
YORKS146610-0.737
LEICS142124-1.402
South Group
TEAMMWLPTNRR
SOM14122241.460
HANTS1495180.820
SUR1486161.192
ESSEX1486160.088
KENT1477140.287
SUSS146812-0.871
GLOUC145910-0.993
GLAM145910-1.060
MIDDX143116-0.932